…and the global sex recession.
As the machines get better, this is just going to get worse.
Category Archives: Health
Overrated Restaurants
A top six.
I’ve never had Papa John’s, or Chipotle’s and it’s been years since I ate at an Olive Garden, but that’s Patricia’s complaint, too (she used to have a boss who loved to go there for lunch). I concur on the fries at In’n’Out. I like Chick-fil-A, but don’t worship it. I only go to Cracker Barrel for breakfast (and rarely — there are none in LA of which I’m aware, and we have better chain places here, like the Black Bear Diner).
But I don’t eat out much in general unless I’m traveling, because it’s terrible both for your budget and from a nutritional standpoint. Unless it’s some kind of exotic cuisine, I can cook much cheaper and healthier at home, and don’t have to endure the noise of restaurants. The notion of going out for a steak seems absurd to me.
[Late-afternooon update]
Sorry, here’s the link.
Toxic Anti-Masculinity
Thoughts on the need for both masculinity and femininity from a (female) psychotherapist.
And Kurt Schlichter writes that we need to retoxify it.
[Update a while later]
Heh. Least masculine society in human history is concerned about “toxic masculinity.”
And this will be fun: Harvard could be sued under Title IX for calling traditional masculinity “harmful.”
Semen
May cure depression in women. I’m willing to offer my services.
I’ve seen previous research that pregnant women who continue to be inseminated by the father of their fetus have less morning sickness. That might make evolutionary sense.
Age-Reversing Gene Therapy
…may be available in the mid-twenties. Barring any major unexpected issues, that should be in time for me, if it happens.
The War On Keto
I guess Jillian Michaels is upset that people (literally) aren’t buying her BS.
Vitamin D
Do we actually need to get out in the sun even if we supplement?
Great. I supposed I should be taking nitric oxide, too, though.
The Case Against Carbohydrates
And this wasn’t another crap epidemiological study. It was controlled.
Aging
How old are we when we’re old?
I’m well into my sixties now, but I don’t feel old at all. Or at least, no more so than I did twenty years ago. In some ways, probably because of improved diet, I feel like I’m in better shape. I do need to work out, though. I’m planning a lot of business travel this year, and starting a new space venture, and I feel as up to it (perhaps more, given my experience) as I ever have.
Chinese-Restaurant Syndrome
Has MSG gotten a bad rap?
I’ve personally never had a problem with it. I used to keep it on hand, in fact, though I haven’t used it in decades.
[Update a few minutes later, after reading the whole thing]:
As Brendan Nyhan, a Dartmouth professor who has researched how to influence attitudes about vaccines, pointed out to me in an email, it’s hard for people to change their minds about personal health issues because it contradicts what they have perceived to experience in the past. “People who felt bad after eating Chinese food in the past may have blamed MSG … and thus resist information they encounter later about its actual effects,” he said. This may be the result of the availability heuristic, where people make judgments using the easiest information available, rather than looking for alternative explanations.
This could also explain peoples’ resistance to accepting new ideas about nutrition, when (e.g.) they’ve been told for decades to avoid fat.
[Update a while later]
Related: Half the people who think they have food allergies are wrong.
I’m pretty confident in my allergy to tree nuts. Even if no one tells me, I can tell when I’ve had them.